Nakamura ( '58 ), Verloop ( '48 ), Marchand, Gilroy and Watson ( '50 ), Von Hayek ( '53 ), and Tobin ( '52 ) have all claimed their normal but relatively nonfunctional existence in the human being.

Though his inner thoughts cringed at it, he forced himself to think back, recreating the scene in which Mae claimed to have caught him molesting the child.

He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind.

To his credit, Doubleday never claimed to have invented baseball.

* Secret history, historical events claimed by revisionists to have been deliberately suppressed or forgotten

In the 1920s, he promoted health practices including vegetarianism and claimed to have found the secret of living to 200.

When he became ill, the Alemanni claimed to have put a hex on him ( 78. 15. 2 ).

Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.

But he may have claimed to be a South Carolinian because the state was considering nullification of the Tariff of 1824, which Jackson opposed.

These scholars have claimed this element represents an Old English word amor, the name of a woodland bird.

However, the lower-class foot soldiers continued to think of Adhemar as a leader ; some of them claimed to have been visited by his ghost during the siege of Jerusalem, and reported that Adhemar instructed them to hold another procession around the walls.

Ashdown claimed the Prince said: " I really can't think why we can't have Catholics on the throne ".

A counterpoint to this argument would be that neither Samaria nor Syria where these refugees were claimed to have originated from were actually ever part of Assyria, but were colonies inhabited largely by Hebrews, Nabateans and Arameans respectively.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

The Lemba people of South Africa and Zimbabwe have claimed that their ancestors carried the Ark south, calling it the ngoma lungundu or " voice of God ", eventually hiding it in a deep cave in the Dumghe mountains, their spiritual home.

Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.

Some other early Latter-day Saint leaders, including Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and Elizabeth Ann Whitney claimed to have received several words in the Adamic language in revelations.

Dürer's later works have also been claimed to show Protestant sympathies.

Many observers claimed to have determined such parallaxes, but Tycho Brahe and Giovanni Battista Riccioli concluded that they existed only in the minds of the observers, and were due to instrumental and personal errors.

Kirk had long been researching fairies, and the book collected several personal accounts and stories of folk who claimed to have encountered them.

In modern law, the title would have fallen into abeyance between the two daughters of the second son, and nobody else would have been able to claim it even if the abeyance were settled ; in 1597, the grandson of the third son claimed the title and its precedence.

The former claimed to have discovered a treatment for agitation in anyone, and the latter team claimed to have discovered a treatment for psychotic illness.

While she did not participate in the discussions, she sat in the front row and listened as the men vying to become the nation's 44th president claimed to be a rightful successor to her husband.

Many fans and reviewers have claimed Venom was an influence on Bathory ; however, Quorthon has said in an interview with Kick Ass magazine in 1985 that he had not listened to Venom until after the first Bathory album was released, although this is contentious, as Quorthon often gave purposefully equivocal or misleading information in interviews.

MCA Records president Al Bergamo listened to the album prior to release and claimed that it was " anti-parent ", although he never cited a specific lyric that led him to that conclusion.

Austrian People's Party military spokesman Walter Murauer defended Otto's statement at the time Murauer claimed that there was " another reality behind the mass of people who listened to Hitler on the Heldenplatz ".

In 2008 Gibb publicly stated that he continued to get on " like a house on fire " with Blair, and claimed that the then Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown regularly listened to the Bee Gees.

" Three years later in 1996, he claimed to have listened to Carey's album Music Box and was shocked when he noted the song's similar lyrics.

The band claimed, that a month passed before submitted demos were listened to and when questioned about this, the owners responded in an often vulgar and rude manner.

Poirot speaks with Jean and tells her that the conversation Nurse Harrison claimed to have overheard seemed psychologically unlikely as two possible conspirators would never had had such a conversation in a place where they could be easily listened to.

Thus literate lay defendants often also claimed the right to benefit of clergy ; furthermore, as the Biblical passage used for the literacy test was always Psalm 51 ( Miserere mei, Deus ...-" O God, have mercy upon me ..."), an illiterate person who had memorized the psalm could also claim benefit of clergy.

If the defendant who claimed benefit of clergy was particularly deserving of death, courts occasionally would ask him to read a different passage from the Bible ; if, like most defendants, he was illiterate and simply had memorized Psalm 51, he would be unable to establish the defence and would be put to death.

Mulholland, who was supposed to be in charge of the non-existent records, was never a fan of paperwork and claimed that he had memorized all of the necessary information, including “ the size of every inch of pipe and the age and location of every valve ”.

During the 1920s, Wiligut had written down 38 ( out of a number claimed to exceed 1000 ) verses or sayings, the so-called Halgarita Sprüche, that Wiligut said he had memorized as a child, taught by his father.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

Since the ivory ban some southern African countries have claimed their elephant populations are stable or increasing and argued that ivory sales would support their conservation efforts.

Only eight African countries are not geopolitically a part of Sub-Saharan Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara ( claimed by Morocco ), Sudan and South Sudan, they form the UN subregion of Northern Africa which also makes up the largest bloc of the Arab World.

Blatter's 2002 candidacy has been marked with rumours of financial irregularities and backroom dealings, culminating with direct accusations of bribery, by a third party, made in the British press by Farra Ado, vice-president of the Confederation of African Football and president of the Somali Football Federation, who claimed to have been offered $ 100, 000 to vote for Blatter in 1998.

Drusilla ’ s paternal grandfather, the African King Juba II of Mauretania, claimed to be a descendant of the sister of the General of Carthage, Hannibal ( Lucan.

His report documented dozens of extra-judicial killings and claimed that hundreds or thousands more African Americans were killed.

According to Transparency International, Mobutu embezzled over $ 5 billion USD from his country, ranking him as the third-most corrupt leader in the past two decades and the most corrupt African leader during the same period .< ref > But after his death the Swiss Government has claimed that Mobutu's legacy was just evaluated at 5. 3 millions dollars.

Noriega, like Torrijos, was dark-skinned and claimed to represent the majority population who were poor and of Zambo heritage ( mixed African and Amerindian ancestry ).

Historically, infant mortality claimed a considerable percentage of children born, in the 1850s in America it was estimated to be 216. 8 per 1, 000 for whites and 340. 0 for African Americans but rates have significantly declined in the West in modern times.

But the French courts ordered that all 8, 000 copies of the book be confiscated and destroyed after his publisher claimed that Bokassa said that he shared women with President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, who has been a frequent guest in the Central African Republic.

) The cotton boom also significantly increased the need for slave labor ; planters bought slaves transported from the Upper South and by 1828, the town claimed 1, 599 inhabitants: 789 free whites, 27 free blacks, and 783 African American slaves.

* Joseph Howard Lee, who claimed to be the African native Bata LoBagola.

* Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, an African American who claimed to be a Native American.

The number was supposedly inspired by the song and dance of a crippled African slave called Jim Cuff or Jim Crow variously claimed to have resided in St. Louis, Cincinnati or Pittsburgh.

In the past some have claimed that Harney was African-American and early in his career he is said to have played with African American theater troupes.

The group, which claimed to speak for all British West African colonies, represented the first expression of political solidarity between intellectuals and nationalists of the area.

Siwi viewers complained to Al-Jazeera after Ibrahim Nasreddin, an Egyptian expert on African affairs, claimed on Al Jazeera's File ( Al Milaff ) program that Israel was forming ties with Siwa.

From 1836 until 1861, parts of Jubaland were claimed by the Sultanate of Muscat ( now in Oman ), when the new Sultanate of Zanzibar was split from Muscat and Oman and given control of its East African territories.

Still others claimed that the supposed mental inferiority of African Americans made them unfit for the duties of citizenship and incapable of real improvement.

Yockey claimed that his ideas about race were initially the result of a car accident, wherein he was assaulted by several African Americans.

By 1812 they claimed a membership of 1, 067 Caucasians and 267 African Americans.

Many have claimed that this represents a reluctance to self-identify with West African descent and the culture of the freed slaves.

They claimed that admitting African Americans, the only applicants specifically barred regardless of other qualifications, would be " an unhappy thing " for both them and other students.

Taliaferro is claimed to be the first African American talk show host on a major market radio station in the country.

Other subspecies have been claimed, including southeastern R. i. caucasicus, North African R. i. laeneni, and Crimean R. i. tauricus.